I am hunting for a certain regular expression within the filenames and am seeking to return the parent folders with their sizes in a unique fashion.
For example, here is the command that I expected ...

Everywhere I see someone needing to get a sorted, unique list, they always pipe to sort | uniq. I've never seen any examples where someone uses sort -u instead. Why not? What's the difference, and why ...

I'm trying to combine both the American and British dictionaries into one large dictionaries, and I'm trying to remove all the duplicates from the superset, but it seems that uniq is not outputting ...

I have very big logs (several gigabytes per day), that can (but do not need to) contain specific lines. I have to count the number of occurences of every one of these lines on a daily basis.
I have a ...